On my way home from Yonkers NY today I used the great iPhone app, VegOut and decided to check out Andy’s in Rye NY.

Walked in to a fantastic looking, clean, well lit little joint in a very Westportish type neighborhood.
Andy’s is all vegan with a lot of raw options, sandwiches, salads, smoothies, juices, ice cream, cakes, and breads. They also have some staple snacks and groceries too. Ice cream cooler was there, but sadly, contained nothing.

They also had a really nice looking buffet as well as a cooler with chocolate and cake.

I ordered up two sandwiches, the first, a Sundred Tomato Cheese Sandwich. Nice, stuffed sandwich with a Sundryed Tomato spread, Vegan American Cheese, Tomatoes, and some mixed greens. All this inside a nice whole grain bread.

Second was a Almond Hummus-Spread Sandwich. I was actually pretty dissapointed with this little guy. NOT stuffed, and not very flavorful. The almond spread couldn’t be tasted, and was probably due to being a very thin spread, especially compared to how the sundried tomato was applied. Mixed greens and tomatoes rounded the sandwich out, stuffed between a tasty Sunflower Sprout spread.

I wish I had enough $$$ to grab a smoothie, but the $7.95 sandwiches (each), ate up my $20 rather quickly.

All in all, a rad little place that is RIGHT off exit 20 on 95. I will be back, probably frequently.

Check em out at Andy’s Pure Food or stop by at 46 Purchase St in Rye NY

iPod, why does thou betray me at such a crucial ferry riding juncture.

Do I not play enough psychedelic rock for you?

Stopped at Shaw’s today and picked these tasty little numbers up in the Wild Harvest frozen section.

Tasty. Cheap. Vegan!

So after recently getting a sweet deal on a Canon EOS 10D Digital SLR Camera, I’ve gotten hooked on the Strobist website/blog run by the awesome David Hobby.

What is Strobist? In a short summary…
This website is about one thing: Learning how to use off-camera flash with your dSLR to take your photos to the next level. Or the next ten levels.

Im still reading up on the Lighting 101 on his site, but have started to dabble in off camera lighting a little and thought I would post some pics!

First Pic:

Running a SB-28 Flash directly behind subjects neck, triggered by Quantum Radio Slave 4 Wireless Trigger. Second SB-28 is mounted on my hot shoe directly on my 10D.

The Flash’s could both be turned down a bit and my setup could have better, but I was short on time and energy.

Second pic:

Once again, Running a SB-28 Flash directly behind Laptop screen, triggered by Quantum Radio Slave 4 Wireless Trigger. Second SB-28 is mounted on my hot shoe directly on my 10D.
I flipped the image horizontally and generally like this image. Its a cool effect (glowing apple), that sometimes in the daylight proves to be a pain when using my PowerBook.

More to come.

If anyone wants a free head shot/body shot and could spare some patience, I’d love to do some shooting using off camera lighting.

And as always, photos can be found at my Flickr page.

RIP Feb 28, 2009

Get this record. Perfection. Embodies everything that’s great about Hardcore Punk.

So today at 1710 I stroll in after a hard day at Yale dealing with moronic subcontractors and am greeted by some great choices in/on the hot buffet counter.

I chose some Vegan Augratin Potatoes and Cauliflower (yummy!), and the Seitan Pepper Steaks.

Add to that Maine Sarsapari Soda and a Vegan Blondie and I’m a pig in shit.

Sunday August 24 No Image played a show at the Haven Skate Park in North Haven/Hamden.

The Vultures started playing shortly after I arrived and it was the second time I have ever seen them play, and I can say is wow. They are a great mix of SoCal Surf Punk, and Hardcore in my opinion. Warren their guitarist sure can shred too. They were really tight and the only thing that I wish they had was a singer. Warren does a great job with the songs that he does sing on, but everything else is just instrumentals. I turned to Toby mid-set and told him how great they would be if Sam McPherters lived in CT and sang for The Vultures. It would be brilliant.

Black Noise Scam were up next (with Warren on guitar again! What a treat!). They are a really good mix of Black Flag / Old NYHC, and sounded really good. They opened up with SOIAs ‘Clobberin Time’, and minus the best little drum fill in a HC song, they nailed it (including essential use of bass chords). I can’t help too but think of a huge Tony Erba influence with the vocal style and sound, weather intentional or not. Big thumbs up.

No Image was up next. Anytime I play I am usually in a haze and time goes by way to quickly and I don’t remember shit. Same this time.

All in all there was some good skating, ramp jumping and hanging out, along with some really awesome arts and crafts.

Kudos to the dude in the Agnostic Front ‘One Voice Tour 1992′ Tshirt. It was really tough not asking him if I could literally buy the shirt off his back.

Thanks to Kyle, Darcy, Will, Danielle and Ashley for a really good time this past weekend.

Beaching it up, eating and just hanging.

And the more I goto East Rock in New Haven, the more I love it.

So we all know how much getting parking tickets suck. And even though we all understand why an officer is giving one (they are just doing their job), it really gets me all worked up when it’s not the cop that gets me the ticket.

On my car window today was a $25 parking ticket, because I was parked for more than the allowed two hours. For people who don’t know, Mystic NEVER enforces this or gives out tickets. It’s more of an honesty policy.

Yes I broke that policy, although really only by a couple of hours, on a Tuesday nonetheless. But, I never thought that I would get turned in and ratted out by one of my own.

On my ticket the cop wrote “civilian complaint, tires marked at ….”! Someone actually called the cops to complain I had been parked there! WTF!

For those that know my dealings with my work truck and parking, they know how ticked off this makes me.

This week I will be approaching the “civilian” that I believe to be the rat.

Second part soon…,,